"As always, students come first, and today was no different," Olson said in a statement published on the school's website. "I reacted in a way that any other teacher would react and at the sound of a gunshot had three other adults, including Tim Brown, Dean of Students, Principal Steve Rood, and Security Officer, Jim Beltico, going toward the sound of gun fire rather than away."

"I think it's heroic," Lacey Police Commander Chris Ward told King 5 News. "I think it's guttural. People rise to the occasion when they need to do something. I think, in this case, it probably prevented worse things from happening."

No one was injured during the ordeal. Students and others praised Olson on social media: